IT BUSINESS ANALYST

Goal oriented and dynamic professional, with comprehensive project management and vast experience in software development including requirement definition, analysis, design, testing and support. Proficient in leading and managing projects, directing multiple priorities and generating innovative strategies to meet and exceed corporate objectives Dependable and highly analytical, exercises independent judgment and decision making abilities in establishing technical standards, ensuring adherence in evaluating technology problems and creating manageable solutions. Proactive with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, experienced in working with different personalities including clients and vendors as well as working on own initiative.

Core Competencies

• Business Analysis Project Management System Architecture Systems Integration
• Testing, Design, Analysis/Reengineering Application Development SDLC Team Coordination

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Developer / Business Analyst

Key Accomplishments:

• Responsible for scoping business requirements leading to the deployment of a critical system intended to be the sole record keeper of rules and regulations governing institutional clients.
• Studied and analyzed project requirements through customer interaction and preparation of technical documentation.
• Responsible for translating business requirement documentation into functional specifications.
• Conducted JAD sessions with stakeholders throughout the life cycle of the project to resolve open issues.
• Used Unified Modeling Language UML standards to develop use case, activity and class diagrams.
• Played a key role in brainstorming sessions held during the design phase of the underlying database.
• Created test plans and detailed test cases.
• Performed Regression Testing and supported User Acceptance Testing UAT .
• Designed SQL queries enabling complex test scenarios.
• Responsible for validating technical design documentation created by developers against functional design documentation.
• Assisted in prototype development requiring consistency in pre-established design and navigation rules.
• Technical Environment: Java, J2EE, HTML, JSP, JavaScript, Weblogic, Apache, XML, SOAP, JDBC, Oracle, Stored Procedures, OmniScripts, OmniPlus, Sun Solaris, z/OS, JCL, Rational Rose, UML.
• Responsible for full life cycle leading to launch and delivery of a system designed to provide all functionality for relationships existing between plan participants and their financial advisors.
• Facilitated meetings with business users for requirements gathering, project development and design considerations.
• Documented business requirements and communicated these requirements to the development team for the design and implementation.
• Provided support and advocacy to business units.
• Collaborate with developers in the design of entity-relationship diagrams, table spaces and tables related to the underlying data source.
• Used UML standards to align requirement documentation for object oriented software development.
• Conducted test of completed work prior to user acceptance testing phase.
• Coordinated user acceptance testing initiatives.
• Technical Environment: Java, J2EE, HTML, JavaScript, JSP, XML, SOAP, JDBC, Oracle, Stored Procedures, Weblogic, Sun Solaris, Rational Rose, UML.
• Oversaw all aspects of the enterprise wide implementation of SAR and OFAC federal requirements.
• Acted as Business Analyst / Project Manager collaborating with the compliance team for interpreting requirements mandated by the law.
• Liaised with external vendor for the customization of the software. Responsible for coordinating software upgrades provided by vendor on a weekly basis.

Technical Environment: Prime Software, MS SQL Server, FTP, Windows NT.

Confidential

Key Accomplishments:

• Key participant in full software development life cycle, from analysis to delivery and customer acceptance of an Intranet based application designed to manage mail delivery preference methods for individual participants.
• Developed JavaScript behavior code for User Interaction.
• Responsible for coding all APIs enabling communication between Java front-end and Cobol back-end logic.
• Designed and coded several recursive procedures implementing binary tree algorithms ensuring the integrity of parent-child record relationships existing in the underlying data structure.
• Technical Environment: Java, WebObjects, Cobol, Natural, Adabase, Websphere MQ, z/OS, TSO, JCL.
• Single-handedly designed, developed and implemented a UNIX based process with functionality to identify, parse and mark email messages retuned to a proxy server after failing to reach intended recipient.
• This included extracting email addresses and uploading them to a database for additional processing such as identification of the recipient and post notification mailing.
• Created complex SQL and used JDBC connectivity to access the database.
• Configured cron scheduler job to trigger process for daily execution.
• Technical Environment: Java, UNIX, PL/SQL, Oracle, Stored Procedures, Websphere MQ.
• Managed the production support for a set of applications providing crucial information to a national call center. Worked with clients to design specific software enhancements that were modular and structured for easy maintenance and reusability.
• Organised meetings did presentations for various design components and part of knowledge transfer training for various projects.
• Responsible for the successful delivery of implementations targeting production fixes, minor and major releases.